16 Jul 2021 Breakdowns forms one of the major losses which carve into machine availability affecting the overall equipment efficiency. A detailed analysis was done by the CII Institute of Quality (CII-IQ) covering around 70 Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) practicing companies from both domestic and overseas. The data covers various segments of…
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Restarting with a Healthy Workforce
03 Jul 2021 India’s second COVID-19 wave has resulted in the unfolding of an unprecedented health crisis. The Government has rightly allowed vaccinations to the larger age-group of 18+ years which could provide some succour in the months to come. CII has been actively working to assist the Government with…
A New Industrial Policy for Building Back Better
13 Jul 2021 COVID-19 and the containment policies adopted to address it have imposed a significant cost on the Indian economy. GDP is estimated to have contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21. The loss of employment and incomes, as documented by multiple surveys such as the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids…
Reviving Employment and Livelihoods in India: Covid-19 and After
12 Jul 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic has delivered a tremendous blow to the global economy. In India, two waves of infections with associated containment measures have caused a massive disruption in the labour market. As the economy emerges from the second wave, far deadlier than the first, it is necessary…
The lightning speed of COVID vaccine development
09 Jul 2021 Vaccine development, before COVID-19, took years or decades. A look at the brief history of vaccine development[1] shows how far we have come. Since the advent of COVID-19, it did not take even a year to develop the first COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine to…
Aatmanirbhar Bharat
07 Jul 2021 Mitigating the adverse effects of Climate Change has become a matter of priority globally and ‘clean energy’ will play a huge role in curbing this threat to the world. India, too, is robustly committed to this agenda and has set a mission to scale up clean, affordable,…
Industry Needs to Calibrate and Transform
01 Jul 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis and the greatest challenge we have faced since the World War II. The virus has unleashed socio-economic effects that have devastated lives and livelihoods beyond just health, undoing decades of global progress. The second wave of infections derailed…
Mechanical ventilation system for Post COVID Era
30 Jun 2021 COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a pandemic declared by the WHO, brought into focus, rather sharply, on not only how quickly but also how effectively we are creating & adapting the ‘new normal’. HVAC systems can have a major effect on the transmission of…
Bringing Change through Technology
28 Jun 2021 India is passing through an unprecedented health crisis and yet another economic challenge. However, the loss of economic momentum is not as severe as last year. As vaccination gains speed, the second half is expected to be strong. The objective, both for the Government and for the…
Driving Change for Child Safety: A battle worth fighting
26 Jun 2021 Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a real problem in many countries in the world, and even in India, the numbers have been alarming. In recent times, due to awareness, more information, and accessible avenues to raise an alarm, more cases are now coming to light. The unfortunate…